Title
DeepMF: deciphering the latent patterns in omics profiles with a deep learning method.
Abstract
With recent advances in high-throughput technologies, matrix factorization techniques are increasingly being utilized for mapping quantitative omics profiling matrix data into low-dimensional embedding space, in the hope of uncovering insights in the underlying biological processes. Nevertheless, current matrix factorization tools fall short in handling noisy data and missing entries, both deficiencies that are often found in real-life data. Here, we propose DeepMF, a deep neural network-based factorization model. DeepMF disentangles the association between molecular feature-associated and sample-associated latent matrices, and is tolerant to noisy and missing values. It exhibited feasible cancer subtype discovery efficacy on mRNA, miRNA, and protein profiles of medulloblastoma cancer, leukemia cancer, breast cancer, and small-blue-round-cell cancer, achieving the highest clustering accuracy of 76%, 100%, 92%, and 100% respectively. When analyzing data sets with 70% missing entries, DeepMF gave the best recovery capacity with silhouette values of 0.47, 0.6, 0.28, and 0.44, outperforming other state-of-the-art MF tools on the cancer data sets Medulloblastoma, Leukemia, TCGA BRCA, and SRBCT. Its embedding strength as measured by clustering accuracy is 88%, 100%, 84%, and 96% on these data sets, which improves on the current best methods 76%, 100%, 78%, and 87%. DeepMF demonstrated robust denoising, imputation, and embedding ability. It offers insights to uncover the underlying biological processes such as cancer subtype discovery. Our implementation of DeepMF can be found at https://github.com/paprikachan/DeepMF.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1186/s12859-019-3291-6
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Matrix factorization, Dimension reduction, Deep learning, Omics profile, Cancer subtype
Data set,Dimensionality reduction,Biology,Matrix decomposition,Artificial intelligence,Missing data,Deep learning,Imputation (statistics),Computational biology,Bioinformatics,Cluster analysis,Cancer
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
suppl
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lingxi Chen101.35
Jiao Xu200.34
Shuai Cheng Li318430.25